Disks are like snowflakes: No two are alike

13th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Krevat, Elie ^a   Tucek, Joseph ^b   Ganger, Gregory R ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISK SYSTEMS; DISK TECHNOLOGY; DISK-BASED; SYSTEM DESIGNERS;

EID: 85092658265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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